2.3 ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan)
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) than ever before, with this group growing by 8.2 percentage points since 2011. This shift has led to smaller households, and the typical home now holds just 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -14.8%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) — lower than 86% of areas.
| Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 2.6 |
| Victoria | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 32% of residents live by themselves, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This high number of single-person homes helps explain why the typical household size is much lower than in most other areas.
32.0% ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 59.4% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 9.4%, a figure that is well below the Victorian average and has fallen since 2011.
9.4% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan), Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Caulfield (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21906/caulfield/topic/family-households